Like anteaq said, his name is Jiang Long. He was a former child actor who had to quit acting due to schooling. But as an adult he graduated from Beijing Film Academy and resumed his acting career.
I have uploaded a copy of the first official trailer of the Chinese fantasy drama Ever Night. 5 minutes long and not a single line of dialogue in it, but its title spoke loudly: "Watch ye all, for (my) blade has been unsheathed" :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR6QAx73A9w (5 mins 720p video)
Some scenes on the trailer might be quite enigmatic, book fans (including myself) have started to make a list of references. For brevity, V1 and V2 refers to first 2 volumes in the book series: V1 = Vol 1: Dawn in the Empire V2 = Vol 2: Lake of Chilling Winter Eagles shown at opening scene at 0:05 is probably a reference to "Eagles and Ants" an allusion narrative in the novel about the relationship between gods and men. The scenes that followed until 0:58 show the might and rituals of several different factions in Season 1. Scene at 0:59 is from V2 Chap 101: A step into a cliff and will lead to an important event at Chap 102: Heaven transcended Chap 103: New Urn, Old Urn, Grey as Snow 1:08 - V1 Chap 52: Chao Xiao Shu, Elder of Spring Wind Pavilion 1:24 - V2 Chap 25: Kill with a Thought; Break with a Rune
Serene scenes from 1:57 to 2:13 :- V1 Chap 165: Behind the Mountain V1 Chap 166, 167: Brothers and Sisters of the Extant (part 1 & 2)
2:28 - V1 Chap 25: Well met, Chang An City 2:40 - V2 Chap 156: Red Wall White Snow, Want you to like me 3:08 - V2 Chap 98: How'bout a friendly game and chat followed by brothy noodles? 4:46 - V2 Chap 62: Arrow of Ruin and Affliction Note: English translations of titles are my own (unofficial)
Filming completed on June 16, 2018 after 217 days. The entire series will consist of 60 episodes with 20 episodes released for Season 1 at end of the year.
Has it aired yet? Can't seem to find them anywhere.
The producers are currently in negotiations with potential buyers over the digital media and broadcast rights. I managed to watch the first 4 episodes (legally) before I was blocked.
Courtesy of Huashi.TV, Legend of Fu Yao will be 'simulcast' (raw video) to international audience thru their official Youtube channel on June 18th 2018. Watch Yang Mi's announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deceH9dQzZ4
Totally sold on the visuals, music and use of original voices on the trailer.
This is the trailer they premiered at the 24th Shanghai TV Festival (highlights being the most important ceremony for China TV dramas, the Magnolia Awards on June 15th).
Ever though I have eagerly anticipated "Second Great Age"* of Chinese "young adult" Fantasy dramas to come into release and fruition this year I still did not expect myself to get all misty-eyed when Ling Don declares "Even only three days as husband and wife, is better than a hundred years of regret".
A short (~50 sec) preliminary preview trailer was shown at an Tencent announcement event more than a month ago. The quality of the cam recording wasn't the best and there's only 6 lines of dialogues in the trailer it but I have translated them into English and embedded the subtitles into an edited video I uploaded here: https://youtu.be/aKm4uYEqryE (small size trailer embedded in 720p video with my English subtitles)
Starred and co-produced by Wu Xiu Bo, this TV series was officially announced on June 10, 2018 in a media event which introduced the leading stars, producers and director as well as key crew members to the public. Wu Xiu Bo has been involved in the development of the project since 2017 but it was delayed. Prior to this, he and co-star Tiffany Tang have reportedly both keen to work together in a drama.
720p 5 min 38 secs trailer of Frontier of Love, the bitter-sweet romance spanning over 50 years featuring an original soundtrack and music by Emmy award composer Mark Chait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISIwKE2tx9M
Hello. Can you tell me which drama is it? The 9.2 rated one by this director.
I shall update Mr Yu's kisskh profile with his directorial credits later but here is the drama I am referring to: https://kisskh.at/9122-legend-of-dance Released two years before Nirvana in Fire, this Wuxia historical based on the legend of Prince Shwenandaw of Pyu and his dance troupe's visit to Tang China remain the gold standard for this genre of C-dramas.
And I noticed that you happened to be from Myanmar? Quite the coincidence :D
I have created a 20 seconds action excerpt from a mobilecam feed where a VIP audience is shown 5 minutes of demo shoots from Ever Night season 1.
In this event, novelist Dr.Tanaka Yoshiko ( https://myanimelist.net/people/6044/Yoshiki_Tanaka ) and Hugo award winner Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy) jointly presented an award to Mao Ni for his Ever Night novel.
Note that quality of the excerpt is not the best as the source is a mobilecam, but one should still able to see how cinematic the show would be, given that the final VFX is currently two to three months away from completion. https://youtu.be/jzYdxXsyfDU (20 seconds, mobilecam 1080p)
PS: The scenes in the excerpt is a segment from the Battle of the Pavilion, a teleport(?) scene and at least 4 other separate encounters.
Finally finished filling most of the main cast info today ^^
Thank you to the person(s) who added extra cast info more recently. I noticed that some of my previous character formatting were changed, I was using guideline No. 10 ( under Cast: ) from: https://kisskh.at/discussions/support/17285-guidelines-editing-and-submitting-new-dramas-movies-and-actors In case you haven't seen that before, just a suggestion for consistency for your new entries if you decided to adopt the guideline too. Thanks again for your contribution!
5 minutes long and not a single line of dialogue in it, but its title spoke loudly:
"Watch ye all, for (my) blade has been unsheathed" :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR6QAx73A9w (5 mins 720p video)
Some scenes on the trailer might be quite enigmatic, book fans (including myself) have started to make a list of references. For brevity, V1 and V2 refers to first 2 volumes in the book series:
V1 = Vol 1: Dawn in the Empire
V2 = Vol 2: Lake of Chilling Winter
Eagles shown at opening scene at 0:05 is probably a reference to "Eagles and Ants" an allusion narrative in the novel about the relationship between gods and men.
The scenes that followed until 0:58 show the might and rituals of several different factions in Season 1.
Scene at 0:59 is from V2 Chap 101: A step into a cliff
and will lead to an important event at
Chap 102: Heaven transcended
Chap 103: New Urn, Old Urn, Grey as Snow
1:08 - V1 Chap 52: Chao Xiao Shu, Elder of Spring Wind Pavilion
1:24 - V2 Chap 25: Kill with a Thought; Break with a Rune
Serene scenes from 1:57 to 2:13 :-
V1 Chap 165: Behind the Mountain
V1 Chap 166, 167: Brothers and Sisters of the Extant (part 1 & 2)
2:28 - V1 Chap 25: Well met, Chang An City
2:40 - V2 Chap 156: Red Wall White Snow, Want you to like me
3:08 - V2 Chap 98: How'bout a friendly game and chat followed by brothy noodles?
4:46 - V2 Chap 62: Arrow of Ruin and Affliction
Note: English translations of titles are my own (unofficial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOCqZN5XdZk
Watch Yang Mi's announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deceH9dQzZ4
This is the trailer they premiered at the 24th Shanghai TV Festival (highlights being the most important ceremony for China TV dramas, the Magnolia Awards on June 15th).
Ever though I have eagerly anticipated "Second Great Age"* of Chinese "young adult" Fantasy dramas to come into release and fruition this year I still did not expect myself to get all misty-eyed when Ling Don declares "Even only three days as husband and wife, is better than a hundred years of regret".
I also look forward to the adaptation of Martial Universe's companion novel https://kisskh.at/22170-fights-break-sphere which looks great also.
* IMO "First Age" began last decade with https://kisskh.at/486-chinese-paladin
https://youtu.be/aKm4uYEqryE (small size trailer embedded in 720p video with my English subtitles)
Wu Xiu Bo has been involved in the development of the project since 2017 but it was delayed.
Prior to this, he and co-star Tiffany Tang have reportedly both keen to work together in a drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISIwKE2tx9M
https://kisskh.at/9122-legend-of-dance
Released two years before Nirvana in Fire, this Wuxia historical based on the legend of Prince Shwenandaw of Pyu and his dance troupe's visit to Tang China remain the gold standard for this genre of C-dramas.
And I noticed that you happened to be from Myanmar? Quite the coincidence :D
In this event, novelist Dr.Tanaka Yoshiko ( https://myanimelist.net/people/6044/Yoshiki_Tanaka ) and Hugo award winner Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy) jointly presented an award to Mao Ni for his Ever Night novel.
Note that quality of the excerpt is not the best as the source is a mobilecam, but one should still able to see how cinematic the show would be, given that the final VFX is currently two to three months away from completion.
https://youtu.be/jzYdxXsyfDU (20 seconds, mobilecam 1080p)
PS: The scenes in the excerpt is a segment from the Battle of the Pavilion, a teleport(?) scene and at least 4 other separate encounters.
I have added them to the gallery: https://kisskh.at/22656-heavenly-sword-and-dragon-saber/photos
I noticed that some of my previous character formatting were changed, I was using guideline No. 10 ( under Cast: ) from:
https://kisskh.at/discussions/support/17285-guidelines-editing-and-submitting-new-dramas-movies-and-actors
In case you haven't seen that before, just a suggestion for consistency for your new entries if you decided to adopt the guideline too.
Thanks again for your contribution!